Chapter 13. Create, Monitor, and Kill Processes

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

Run jobs in the foreground and background

Signal a program to continue running after logout

Monitor active processes

Select and sort processes for display

Send signals to processes

&

bg

fg

jobs

kill

nohup

ps

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